Word: humorless
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...make waves-not even the most celebrated of Harvard's faculty lights. Our immediate predecessors-the Nieman class of 1968-69-had rebelled against such intellectual pabulum. In their case, the Nieman Curator (a former editorial page editor of the late New York Herald-Tribune, and a man of humorless mien) had proved so unyielding they were obliged to fund their "underground" seminars from their own pockets...
Listen. There is no compromise with a machine. You cannot talk Peace and Love to a human or a robot whose every federal bureaucratic impulse is soulless, heartless, humorless, lifeless, loveless...
...older than we are. Detached, observed always by that invisible third eye, we still find it impossible to deliver ourselves completely to slogans and ideologies. Even our rebels, our Jerry Rubins and Abbie Hoffmans, have a sense of irony. Our generation could not have produced a Mark Rudd -dour, humorless, and without even the smallest doubt that he might be wrong...
...Center, strolled past City Hall, which he lamented was bereft of plants, threaded through some markets, where Huntley priced artichokes, and finally arrived at the Aquarium. I bought a hot dog so impenetrable that I wondered if it weren't some subtle coral washed ashore and marketed by a humorless entrepreneur...
...secretary and dottering mainstay of the board, continually answers my snide inquiries and diatribes with short formal notes on mimeographed forms. I don't even have the satisfaction that they take my hate notes seriously. They claim they simply administer the system, following directives from Washington. But they are humorless, and totally without compassion...